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An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and
adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place. |
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An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and
smoothing their coats; a currycomb. |
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A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool,
flax, hair, etc. |
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The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine. |
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A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for
hardening the soft fiber into a bat. |
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A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a
lathe; a chaser. |
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The notched scale of a wire micrometer. |
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The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a
comb. |
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The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the
bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red. |
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One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen
of scorpions. |
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The curling crest of a wave. |
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The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which
bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. |
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The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be
cocked. |
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To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay
smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool.
See under Combing. |
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To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a
white foam, as waves. |
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Alt. of Combe |
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A dry measure. See Coomb. |